Saturday, December 20, 2008

RIAA is still filing new lawsuits

Several news organizations reported that the RIAA said it had stopped suing music downloaders. To my knowledge, none of those news organizations fact-checked the statement. However, Ray Beckerman of the Recording Industry vs. People blog did and he writes:

According to a report on Wired.com, the RIAA spokesman claims that the RIAA has not filed any new lawsuits "for months"; according to the Wall Street Journal report the RIAA stopped filing mass lawsuits "early this fall"; and the Associated Press was apparently told that the RIAA had stopped bringing new lawsuits in August.

Being very familiar with the RIAA's penchant for "misspeaking", even when under oath, I investigated the matter a bit, and learned that a large number of suits have been brought by the RIAA quite recently, one as recently as this Monday. Here are just a few.